Clever But Caught
By Natalie V.

Way back, a long time ago there was a group of extremely clever robbers, the F and V robbers. These robbers were no ordinary thieves, these robbers sailed on a ship and robbed famous islands. On November 8th 1831 the team set sail for their biggest robbery yet. They were going to rob the beautiful but freezing Snow Island of its priceless Snow Crystal. Their plan was to sell the Snow Crystal, they would then have enough money to never work again in their lives. The team was going to have to have an absolutely, genius, amazing plan to get past Snow Island’s humongous guards, lasers and so many other unknown obstacles. Lindsey, Dylan, Katherine, and Justine were going to have to work harder than they ever had, but nothing was going to get in their way!

Cluclunk, the F and V robbers set sail on their brown, yellow and blue stolen ship for a long journey to Snow Island. As soon as things were running smoothly, Lindsey and Dylan started a plan for the great heist. Katherine was on lookout and controlling the gas so that left Justin to steer.
“We need to have a way for all of us to get in at the same time,” said Lindsey.
“I know, but we don’t even know all the obstacles inside and we don’t truly know where the crystal is either,” explained Dylan.
Then Katherine jumped in, “well then the answer is simple, we need another plan!”
Justin scratched his head and for about an hour silence filled the waters, the only sound you could hear was the water thrashing up against the side of the old, ugly and stolen ship.
Then Lindsey shrieked, “I got it, I’ve got a plan.”
She explained the plan to everyone. “We will have bases around the whole building, there are four doors and only two guards, or so I’ve heard, so we need to open all four doors at the same time and run straight for the crystal. That way the guards will only catch two of us. The other two will get the crystal and when the guards figure out they have the crystal they will let the two that were captured go and then they can jump into action too.”

Hours and hours went by and then they finally arrived at Snow Island, it was even colder than they thought it would be. With no idea what they were in for they prepared for the heist, they went over the plan one more time, and then they took action!

Lindsey, Dylan, Justin and Katherine all turned on their high tech cell phones and took position in their bases. Lindsey’s base was door one, Justin’s base was door two, Katherine’s base was door three and Dylan’s base was door four. When they were all at their bases the fight for the Snow Crystal began.

“RUN” Justin screamed into the phone, they all charged for their door. They sprinted for the snow crystal. It seemed that the guards had no clue they were there. But then, they heard a large “boom” and two large men came running straight at them.
“Get it,” screamed Justin.
“I can’t reach,” exclaimed Katherine.
“I got it,” said Lindsey.
Lindsey jumped across the table and reached for the crystal. She only tipped it off the table and then Justin slid on the floor, got under the table and just caught it on the tip of his finger.
“Sprint to the ship!” they all screamed in unison.
As they sprinted out of the ice castle through their base doors fifteen or so guards came out of a trap door in the floor and started yelling, “Surrender!”
“NEVER!” Dylan screamed at the top of his lungs as they sprinted to the ship. With a loud crash, boom and a bang the ship set sail and they were on the run.

With the guards chasing them on a high speed boat they were going to have to surrender sometime and the time was approaching quickly because the ship was running out of gas. Then in a crescendo the speed of the ship got slower and slower and then stopped.
“No!” yelped Dylan in a strange voice.
Suddenly there was an extremely loud noise and that noise was footsteps. In the snap of a finger they were all being pinned to the ground, they were told to surrender, and after being slammed to the ground so many times, they did so.
“Where is the crystal?” asked the largest guard of them all. Then Katherine let the cat out of the bag.
“The crystal is on the lower deck,” she said. Knowing that, the guards went down the stairs and soon came up with the crystal in hand.
“Because you did not manage to escape with the crystal we are going to let you go and not put you in prison, but try this again and prison will be your destiny,” said a small guard.

The F and V robbers escorted the guards off their ship and then set off for a new adventure. They wanted to steal the crystal back, but they were famished so first they needed to row home and get some fuel and food. On the way home they babbled about their new plan, how to get the crystal back.